CD Sunday - Purple Paradise

This weeks challenge over at the CD Sunday blog is chosen by Wendy, and she's picked Purple Paradise. So we want to see all things Purple this week. I was asked to make this card for an 80th Birthday, and it was when I was about half way through that I realised it was going to fit in perfectly with the theme. I used Joanna Sheen's Thomas Kinkade CD again this week, and again I've printed onto some Canvas photo paper, I've then mounted the topper onto some gold mirri card, doing the same with the backing paper. The sentiment was made on the PC and I changed the colour of the text to purple. The flowers were made using a crealies die, and I've place purple pearls into the centres.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Fishing You A Happy Birthday

It's hubby's birthday today, and this is the card that I've made him. I used Stampscapes and Inkylisious stamps to create this scene. It was stamped with Memento Tuxedo black ink, and then I coloured the mountains and fish with pro markers, and used Adirondack inks for the sky and lake, these were brushed on. I finished it by mounting onto some silver mirri card and then an 8x8 card base. I'm glad to say he love's it.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Majesty

This weeks challenge over at CD Sunday is Majesty. I've chosen to go with the Majesty of a stunning view, and Thomas Kinkade was the obvious CD to reach for for this. I make the cards for all of the family members for my in-laws, and as it's my hubby's birthday on Tuesday I've made this for them to give to him. As a very keen fisherman I always try to make something that reflects his hobby, hence the fish and twine. Last month he went to a fishing show (a bit like a craft show, but with fishing things) and came back very enthusiastic about going to Canada and fishing lake Ontario for carp, this is all I hear at the moment. Now I have been to Toronto, which is on the edge of lake Ontario, and it's very flat around there, but I'd like to think that somewhere it would look a little bit like this scene. Back to the card though, I printed the topper onto some canvas photo paper and then mounted it onto some gold textured card. I mounted the backing paper onto the same textured card, and wrapped some twine around the bottom. In the cupboard I had some rub ons, so I put two of the fish onto some light weight card and the cut the out and placed them on the bottom. Finally I added a sentiment, which was made on the PC.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Wash Day

My card today is for the second challenge over on the Lavinia blog, and this month they are asking for Bright and Beautiful. I started by making a background to stamp onto using pan pastels, and a piece of paper shaped for the hills. The clouds were made by rubbing away the pan pastel and also the sun, I just replaced the blue with yellow for the sun. I then stamped over the top with tuxedo black Memento ink, using a darker shade of green to make some foliage on the trees and to pick out the shadows. The sentiment was from Inkylisious

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Sue

FYI Challenge 44

I've decided to get an early start on the FYI challenge this month, normally I print off the photo, pop it onto the wall in my craft room until I can think yes that's what I'm going to do. However the last 2 challenges I've done this, got the stamps out, popped them onto the side ready to use and missed the deadline. I knew what I was going to do almost straight away this time, so no printing off the photo, I just got the stamps out and made a start. I was also inspired by the very talented Eileen Godwin at Eileen's Crafty Zone, as well as the photo below.

 I used some pan pastels onto an off cut of white card stock and laid down the colours to give the effect of the setting sun. Then with my Lavinia stamps I set about making this scene of the rabbits playing underneath an old oak tree. When I had finished it, I went around the outside of the card with a brown pro marker, then I popped it onto a cream coloured 6x6 card base. The sentiment is from a Sheena Douglas set.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Spring

This month the challenge on the Show Us Your Twinchies blog is Spring. What could be more spring like that seeing sheep with their lambs in the fields. It was while I was clearing up after the card in my last blog post, that I realised that the Hobby Art stamps sitting on the side were idea for making a small scene, and would fit on a 2x2 inch (5x5 cm) square piece of card.

I stamped with Memento tuxedo black and coloured with Aqua markers (only as these were already out). I've used 3-4 colours on the mountains in the distance. Those of you how know me, will also know that I like to finish my twinchies on a card. I always think if I've taken the trouble to make the twinchie in the first place, it deserves to be finished properly. This one has been finished with some textured gold card and some olive green card, on an A6 card base, which came out of my bits box. The stamp is from a sheet of sentiment stamps from Flower soft.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and you kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

Craft A Scene - Down On The Farm Week 3

I'm back for the second time today but this time with my other DT hat on. It's week 3 over on the Craft A Scene, and we are still asking that you make a scene of a farm. There has already been some lovely entries, but there is still time for you to join in. For my card I have used mostly Chocolate Baroque stamps, the sky, cottage, hills and trees, birds and wall. The sheep are from Hobby Art and the sentiment is one from Sheena Douglas. I've coloured it with a mixture of Pro markers and Aqua Markers, then mounted onto some bright blue card, before all being mounted onto a pale blue card base.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Thank You

I can't believe that it's Sunday again already, this week has flown by. It means that it's time for a new challenge over on the CD Sunday blog, and this week Beryl has picked Thank You. I always like to have a couple of Thank You cards in my box, you never know when you are going to need one. I've used Cupcake's, Bloomilitious. A CD that's not had a outing for awhile, but it has some lovely floral images on. I couldn't resist doing decoupage for this gorgeous bearded Iris either. The matching backing paper and border are also on the CD. I mounted them onto some matching card, and then onto an A5 card base. I'm afraid that I can't remember the name of the corner dies, and the sentiment was made on the PC.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

April Quintiles - April Fool

It's that time of the month where I need to make something for the Chocolate Baroque quintile challenge. This month it was certainly that, after struggling to come up with something, I decided to google "April Fool". I wish I'd thought of it earlier, apart from the obvious answer of Prank, it gave me a chose of four other things. Buffoon, Clown, Harlequin and Jester. It was then I remembered that I had these stamps brought some time ago, and this is the first time that they've been inked. I used the same stamps on both quintiles but changed the colours.

The first, for the background I used a Harlequin mask and after swiping an orange pan pastel over the card, I placed the mask over the top and pressed a versamark ink pad through the design, I then went back over with the same pan pastel where the ink picked up the colour making it a deeper shade. I stamped the images and embossed with black sparkle, then coloured with promarkers. I then added a dictionary meaning for the word Jester, this was done on the PC. I added Vintage Photo distress ink to the torn edges, and mounted onto some silver Mirri card.

The second was made very similar, by stamping the images, embossing and colouring with promarkers. But this time the backing was made by using black card, and silver sparkle paste through the mask.

Thanks for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Through The Window

Tuesday morning, I was being very lazy and having a lie in, my first cup of tea on the bedside table, when the phone rang. It was Carol from the CD Sunday team, I'd put my name down to become part of the DT, and Carol was just ringing me to say that the team had asked me to join them. Of course I said yes straight away, thank you ladies.  I've been taking part in the challenges for about two years now, and it's one of two of my favourite challenge blogs, I hope that I don't let the team down.

This weeks challenge is Through The Window, and I had just the CD to use. It's MCS, Klever Konstruction, Framed Flowers. A great CD with several windows like this one. Onto three sheets of card you print the front, back and window, and then another lighter weight (photo paper perhaps) the elements which include the view, dragonflies and flowers. Once it's all cut out and put together it forms a box, but by pulling the sides, it will lay flat to post.

Thank you for taking the time to look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue

CD Sunday - Sugar And Spice

This week the challenge over on the CD Sunday blog is Sugar and Spice. A couple of things instantly sprung to mind, Cooking with both Sugar and Spice, or the poem "What are little girls made of", I decided to go with the latter. I used Crafter Companion, Paintbox Poppets for my card, and just one sheet from the card companion section on the CD. With the increased cost of postage these days I'm trying to make flatter cards, I do find it difficult as I love to decoupage. On my one sheet there is a layered background, toppers, embellishments (I decided to add my own, with the ribbon and the flower) tag  and sentiment. Apart from the embellishments I added all I needed was the card base (6x6) and some card for matting.

Thank you for taking the time look, and your kind comments which are always appreciated.

Sue